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Naming conventions in the U.S. Navy can’t always be explained. Aircraft carriers are now named for past U.S. presidents or those who played an...
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Naming conventions in the U.S. Navy can’t always be explained. Aircraft carriers are now named for past U.S. presidents or those who played an...
The USS Texas (BB-35), completed in 1914, remains the only battleship in existence to have seen service in both World Wars. She is has...
On December 7, 1941, the United States Navy suffered the greatest loss in its history. The force of the Imperial Japanese Navy targeted the eight U.S. battleships that...
Sea Shadow, A Short Stealth History: A key plot element of the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies involved media baron Elliot Carver...
Ask any armchair historian to name the largest naval battle in history and a typical response is the “Battle of Leyte Gulf,” fought in...
How did we convince ourselves that naval power didn’t matter? Navies haven’t disappeared, of course, but reasons to believe in the decisive nature of...
Completed in 1914, USS Texas (BB-35), along with her sister ship USS New York (BB-34), were the first warships designed to carry 14-inch (356mm/45-caliber)...
Fearing a potential war with Fascist Italy, the French Third Republic responded to the Italian Navy’s (Regia Marina’s) Littorio-class of battleships with its own...
The role that the Essex-class aircraft carrier played in World War II can’t be understated. The ships have been called the backbone of the...
Last fall, the U.S. Navy began to release documents from the investigation into what was the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history. However, in...